Cyber Security Awareness Training

Our passion for security, privacy & online safety is echoed in everything we produce.

We work with you 1-on-1 to implement cyber awareness & compliance programs that successfully create an internal culture of cyber security. With a greater than 95% client retention rate, we’re experts at creating human firewalls out of end-users!

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*(Or so we’ve been told.)

TRAINING MATERIALS

eLearning Modules, Assessments, Trivia Games

Training Materials

Every great security awareness program’s foundation lies in training. They allow you to capture metrics, establish a baseline, and track participation.

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REINFORCEMENTS

Videos, Periodicals

Reinforcements

Keep your awareness messages in the forefront of usersâ minds with content that reinforces the lessons most important to your organization.

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MESSAGING TOOLS

Artwork, Emails, Launch Videos

Messaging Tools

Youâll hear us say it again and again: A successful awareness program is run like a marketing campaign. These materials will help you do that.Â

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PRODUCT PHILOSOPHY

Our content covers the full learning spectrum.

Product Philosophy

Did you know only 10% of knowledge comes from traditional training? Why spend most of your budget & efforts on the lowest impact?

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Security Awareness Campaign Ideas & Resources

Need help designing your cyber awareness program? Luckily for you, we’re experts! Let us be your resource for learning the best practices for planning, launching, and managing a successful training program for your organization.

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Security Awareness Training the Way YOU Need It!

We’re dedicated to excellence and exceeding your expectations.

FlexPoints & Pricing

Program Branding

Global Languages

LMS Hosting

Free Content

Every organization has different needs, a different company culture, different priorities. We cater to your differences, helping you select theÂ materials that will work best for your users and assisting in developing a comprehensive program that will meet all of your needs. We provide more choices than anyone else in this industry, from branding all of your materials and delivering them in multiple languages, to designing custom packages and customizing materials to further exceed your expectations.

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Partner with SAC

Since 1995, The Security Awareness Company has led the industry with the most entertaining, effective, engaging, and varied styles of content for your Security Awareness Program. Our subject matter experts, alongside our design and production teams, continuously produce unmatched security awareness training products. Weâre looking for the right partners, with complementary service offerings, to help turn our mutual clientsâ end users into Human Firewalls!

Alliance Partnerships

Our simple and flexible partner agreements will help you promote and grow your business â client-hosted or SAC hosted. Our training is easy to demo and easy to sell. Your own dedicated SAC resource manager is available to assist while you grow your business. You will be able to offer all SAC content and solutions as a custom branded value-add to your security solution, services, and product portfolio. And youâll benefit from our competitive discounts, deal registration, co-marketing, partner toolkit, and joint lead-generation programs.

Marketing, Industry Associations, Friends, & Fans

SAC has led the security awareness industry since 1995 when we built one of the first LMSs for the financial services industry. Since those early days at SAC we have developed a wide network of organizations, with whom we partner, in order to promote security awareness and lead industry innovation. If you have an industry conference or organization to promote, would like to be a guest blogger, or have a creative security awareness co-marketing idea, please reach out to us!

Technology and Integration Partnerships

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If you are interested in Partnering with SAC, please let us know! Email Jane McGraw at Jane@TheSecurityAwarenessCompany.com with subject: âPartnering.â

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Security Awareness Program Extra Features & Add-Ons

Extra Options for Your Security Awareness Program

Branding

Languages

LMS Hosting

Policy & Customization

Branding

It’s easy to brand any of our materials just for you.

Off-the-Shelf products are great for some organizations, but others need to keep all training materials consistent with their existing internal look-and-feel. That’s where we come in. Let us brand all of your training materials: from newsletters and posters, to courses and quizzes. That way, you’ll have a consistent theme which helps users identify anything you present related to your awareness campaign. Branding helps to drive your messages home and further commits them to users’ memories!

What goes into branding a security awareness program?

Think of your awareness program as an advertising campaign. Content should be delivered regularly and with a consistent look-and-feel, which emphasizes to users that the information you’re presenting to them is important and relevant to your organization’s internal culture.
Maybe you want to create a mascot or logo for the security department. Every time an employee sees an email blast or poster with that logo, they recognize it as part of the Security Awareness Initiative.
Our production team will work with you to develop a consistent, branded look-and-feel for all your training materials. Just provide us with a high-res logo, your company colors, and incident response information, and we’ll do the rest!
For an extra charge, you can also add custom pages to the newsletter or delete / modify content in any of our courses, videos, and posters. This way, everything coordinates with your internal policy!Â

Add Your Logo

We place your company logo or an internal department logo / mascot on all the materials from the newsletter header to the footers of posters.

Company Colors

To make everything consistent with your organization’s brand, we use your specific colors to create everything from the course player templates to the newsletter template.

Incident Response Info

Your employees need to know whom to call in case of emergency, so plaster your contact info on everything: newsletters, posters, videos, and courses!

Easy to Brand

Tell us what you want to call your newsletter, courses, post-assessments, and Security Express videos.

Languages

Many of our materials are already available in dozens of languages.

Translation is different than localization, and we strive, in conjunction with our global clients, to emphasize the communication of ideas rather than literal word-for-word translations. Some of our inventory is already available in many languages, and we can easily translate our modules, videos & posters to meet your needs.

Translation costs depend on which languages you choose, as well as how many you choose. Therefore, we need that information in order to provide quotes. Note, that we never mark-up translation costs; we only invoice you for the amount we are invoiced by the translation company. For more information about translations, ask your SAC sales rep or SAC program manager.

Localization Options

Newsletter

For additional cost and a few extra days for production time, you can receive a localized version of the newsletter. Currently we have Latin American Spanish and Canadian French translations of our monthly newsletter available in stock. Ask your SAC sales rep for more details!

Please keep in mind translation costs are based on the language and number of languages so therefore we need that information in order to provide quotes for the costs involved.

Modules

For additional cost and extra production time, you can receive localized versions of any module.Â All translated modules come with the Script, Quiz and Incident Response slide translated into the requested languages. The player shell of the course, including buttons, will be localized so users will be able to navigate the courses in their native language.

Translated audio is an option; while a text-and-audio translated course or video provides a better user experience, doing so can be cost-prohibitive for some organizations. The costs of voice talent, studio time, editing, and re-engineering of the content can be higher than most budgets allow.

Please keep in mind translation costs change based on the languages, number of languages and which languages we might already have in stock, so therefore we need that information in order to provide quotes for the costs involved.

Videos

For additional cost and a few extra days for production time, you can receive a localized version of any video.Â There are two options for this:

Subtitles: The easiest and most budget-friendly option is to add subtitles, in any language, to the videos. Many of our videos are already available with subtitles in many different languages. If you donât see a language specified, we can translate and subtitle the video for a fee.
Narration: We get the video translated and narrated by a native speaker, lay the new audio in, and re-export the videos. This get costly because we must charge for the translation, and the audio engineerâs, vocal artistâs and video editorâs time. We also can not guarantee that the voice will sync up exactly with the visuals since our production team can only collectively speak three languages. 😃

Posters

Some of our posters are already available in other languages. For those that are not currently translated, we can get them localized and re-laid out in any language you need. Please keep in mind translation costs change based on the languages, number of languages and which languages we might already have in stock, so therefore we need that information in order to provide quotes for the costs involved.

LMS Hosting

We recommend adding LMS (Learning Management System) Hosting to security awareness programs for companies with fewer than 1,000 employees who do not have their own LMS and must measure compliance, mandatory training or regulatory requirements.

ADA & JAWS compatible.
Hosted in Amazonâs AWS-EC2, reliability and security is assured (SSL-TLS).
Tin Can API, SCORM, AICC compliant.
Branded with your company details, full reporting and metrics.
Use our quizzing and assessments or we can use your ideas and make them interactive. We are here for you.
For larger installations (10,000 â 100,000+ users), we can provide labels, such as Location, Department, etc. for more in-depth reporting.
A comprehensive administration console is available to your organization, or we can manage it for you.

🎓 Don’t forget to ask for a demo of our LMS!

Policy & Customization

Customization includes any changes made to the content, outside of standard branding. Any customization to any piece of content (including adding or deleting content) requires the use of customization hours, which are sold in bundles of 25 or 50 hours, with a minimum of 2 hours for any customization project. Customization adds time to the delivery of content, with any custom request requiring a minimum of 10 business days for delivery. More complex custom projects can range from 10 – 60 business days, depending on the complexity of the customization being done. Estimates can be provided after a customization request form has been filled out by the client and assessed by our production team.

Co-Development:Â Some clients also want to create from-scratch custom artwork, videos, or elearning materials on topics that we do not currently offer in our inventory. In these cases, we recommend discussing your vision with our creative team because, if the topic is something we need to add to our inventory, it might be the perfect opportunity to co-develop a piece of content with SAC. For projects we agree to co-develop, we work with you to create the materials (written and designed in a generic way) that would apply to any organization, and would fit within SACâs visual styles. We then add the final product to our inventory of products, and you get a major discount on the cost of development. From-scratch development projects can take anywhere from 1-6 months, and we can only schedule a few co-development projects a year, so please discuss your ideas with us early on.

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Incident Response: Time Is Not On Your Side

For almost three decades, the security industry has harped on incident response as the single most important security process for every organization: âSee something? Hear something? Say something!â Or, âReport all potential security incidents immediately,â experts warn.

But why the urgency? Why is “immediately” so necessary? Why canât you wait until after a meeting or lunch to report an incident? Because resolution is all about time.

Think about it this way: How much damage can a security incident cause in one minute? How much damage can that same incident cause if left unreported for one hour? Is that 60 times the potential damage? Or what about one day, or even a week or longer? You simply donât know; all the more reason to report any suspected security event as quickly as possible.

The longer a security event goes unreported, the greater the potential damage. Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) often go unnoticed and unreported for more than a year. How much information can a criminal or hostile nation-state steal in a year? How much damage would be done? What would it cost?

Security Is All About Detection and Reaction

Detection: The moment a potential security event gets noticed.

An employee finds a random USB drive in the parking lot right outside of her organization’s building.

Reaction: How quickly a potential security event gets reported.

Does she turn the drive in through the proper channels immediately, or does she respond to a few urgent emails and return a few clients’ phone calls first?

Exposure: The amount of time between detection and reaction.

Once she does finally report the USB drive, how long does it take her organization to react?

If the first goal of information security is to reduce security events, then the second goal is to reduce exposure time (during which your organization is most vulnerable) to those events. How do you accomplish that? By training your employees to not just identify incidents, but to understand the importance of reporting them ASAP. Every end-user should know what to look out for and what to do when they âsee somethingâ or âhear something.â

From there, itâs up to the organization to have an incident response plan in place. Without it, recovery efforts will be ineffective and long-term damage could be devastating. Thatâs why every organization, regardless of size or industry, should develop an incident response plan that provides a playbook for handling security events in a timely manner. To learn more, check out this article covering incident response in five easy steps. And consider leaning on the NIST Cybersecurity Framework as your guide to implementing a robust security process that strengthens every aspect of your organizationâs cyber defense.

Remember, time is not on your side. And the sooner you detect and react, the greater your chances of reducing long-term effects.

The Security Awareness Company works with you 1-on-1 to implement cyber awareness & compliance programs. With a greater than 95% client retention rate, weâre experts at creating human firewalls out of end-users! Get started here.

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By Justin Bonnema| April 1st, 2019|Ask The Experts, Security Awareness 101|

ResourceÂ Library for Security Awareness Campaigns

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PLANNING

LAUNCHING

MANAGING

Let Security Cat™ help you plan, launch & manage your security awareness program!

Planning a Cyber Security Awareness Training Program

Planning is the most important stage of any successful information security awareness program, and unfortunately the most overlooked.

You must assess your needs, examine management and culture, set realistic goals for the program, determine a budget, and create a game plan. You canât do it all at once!

Create a content calendar, release schedule, and an assessment plan. Predetermine how you will host the training, what types of training youâll use, how much of it will be mandatory, what youâll give your users in exchange for completing it, etc. Without a plan, your program is destined to fail.

Download: The Introductory Guide to Security Awareness Programs

Download: 2019 Security Awareness Program Planning Calendar

Steps toÂ Planning a Security Awareness Program (SAP)

ASSESS NEEDS

One of the most crucial steps to developing a successful program is assessing the distinctive needs of your organization. What specifically do your employees need to be trained on?

Keep in mind that this is not a one-and-done process! We recommend routinely assessing your needs, since they will change over time.

SET GOALS

In order to measure the success of your awareness program, youâll need to track its progress. To do this effectively, itâs important to set goals.

By setting goals and developing a game plan, you not only put your program in motion, you also give it direction that effectively prioritizes your needs.

SEEK MANAGEMENT SUPPORT

A program cannot succeed if it doesnât have buy-in from everyone within your organization, especially executives and upper management.

Seeking support from âthe bossâ or convincing the C-suite to become “security awareness champions” is a great way to bolster your program and demonstrate to your employees that no one is above the organizationâs security efforts.

More Helpful Articles for the Planning Stage

Launching a Cyber Security Awareness Training Program

Your security awareness campaign ideas have become reality, youâve created or purchased security training materials, and youâre ready to launch!

Make it fun, shout it from the rooftops, use email and the company intranet and posters around the office. Hang art in the “facilities” and public areas. Send out branded internal email blasts. Get creative! Make a big deal about it in order to engage users from the beginning and drive participation.

Steps to LaunchingÂ a Security Awareness Program (SAP)

PRE-MARKETING

With planning complete, itâs time to build the hype! Your program needs to be advertised in a manner that will grab your usersâ attention.

Create a tagline and promote your program as a brand. Put yourself in your usersâ shoes: what can you do to make them care and retain their attention? Whatâs in it for them?

Market your program in a way that will get them interested before launching.

LAUNCH EVENT

Itâs time to give your program the red-carpet treatment! You know what they say about first impressions, right? Kick your SAP off with a bang!

Think of it like a movie premier and officially introduce it with a launch video or a letter from an executive. Make it a company event that celebrates your communal efforts to prevent security incidents within your organization. Think outside the box!

ENCOURAGE USER BUY-IN

Thereâs a good chance youâre going to experience some resistance from your users when it comes to mandatory training. Theyâre likely going to view it as extra work.

To circumvent this, make your program fun and competitive. Keep it upbeat, modern, and relatable to their experience. Your users will buy-in if they can personally apply the information you are providing to every aspect of their lives. Â

More Helpful Articles for the Launching Stage

Managing a Cyber Security Awareness Training Program

Information security is not a one-and-done kind of thing. In fact, there is no time in any of our lives when we can sit back, hands behind our heads and say, âAhh, yes. Iâm finally secure.â

Information security is a state of mind created through consistent, engaging, and interactive messaging that makes it relevant to our personal, professional, and mobile lives. Your goal should be to transform your company staff into human firewalls, not just to check off a compliance training box.

You need to employ metrics to find where youâre hitting the mark and where you can make improvements. Then using the metrics youâve collected, see where youâre improving and where your users still need help. Get feedback, tweak the system, reassess your needs. When you find a strategy that works, donât do it once. Do it again, and again, and againâ¦. And again.

Download: Security Awareness Program Metrics Chart

Steps to ManagingÂ a Security Awareness Program (SAP)

MARKETING

Weâve pointed out how important it is to pre-market a program before launch, but it shouldnât end there.

Think about the major brands you hear and see in commercials. They routinely update their ads and reformat how they sell their brand to drive new interest. A successful SAP will take that same approach.

METRICS & FEEDBACK

If you canât measure it, you canât improve it.

With metrics, you will learn what works and what doesnât, what issues need added reinforcement, and how to update your strategies as the threat landscape evolves. And employee feedback is an invaluable resource that should be encouraged across your entire organization.

REVIEW & RE-EVALUATE

As your organization grows and your needs change, so too will the needs of your security awareness program.

Itâs vital that you routinely review and re-evaluate the progress youâve made to determine if your process is working. There is no better way to stay ahead of the security curve than by looking back and assessing your accomplishments (and failures).

More Helpful Articles for the Management Stage

Client Case Studies: What Does Success Look Like?

We’ve helped a lot of organizations create cyber security awareness programs that actually work. Curious how they fostered that success? Check out these interviews with some of our clients to find out!

Industry: Insurance
Company Size: 5,000-10,000
Number of Countries: 1

Industry: Healthcare
Company Size: 30,000+
Number of Countries: 3+

Industry: Consulting & Certification
Company Size: 12,000+
Number of Countries: 44+

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Training Material for Security Awareness Programs

Training materials are the bedrock of most security awareness programs. They allow you to capture metrics, establish a baseline to launch from, and track participation and scores.

These kinds of materials include elearning modules of various types, which can serve as introductions to, or refreshers on, certain topics; pre-assessments, for finding your baseline at the beginning of a program; post-assessments, for analyzing how far your users have come; and trivia games, another assessment option disguised as something fun (just a spoonful of sugar to make the medicine go down…).

Our broad range of on-demand, web-based training materials can be published for any LMS (SCORM 1.2, SCORM 2004, AICC, or TinCan xAPI), or can be used in a non-tracking environment such as an intranet or Sharepoint server. Our team of experienced elearning developers work hard to create training materials that are both engaging and educational.

eLearning Modules

Our courses are a simple, reliable, and effective method for teaching your staff the basics of security awareness (such as Data Classification and Phishing) and compliance standards, including HIPAA, PCI-DSS, and more. Our broad collection of elearning modules runs the gamut of topics and styles, so we certainly have something that works for your organization!

Choose from our large inventory of modules ranging from short and focused to more dynamic, hands-on interactions. All modules come standard with a post-assessment quiz, unless otherwise noted on their demo portal product page.

We are currently moving towards making all courses interactive in some capacity, and updating older courseware. Interactivity encourages participation and improves knowledge retention, and also results in varied run-times. The styles of interactivity will vary per module.

Active Learning

User interaction is required through learning activities and knowledge checks; content may beÂ presented in a linear fashion, a non-linear fashion, or a combination thereof. Followed by a short post-assessment forÂ tracking and completion.

Decision-Based Learning

Based on the concept of test-potentiated learning, this interactive style teaches via a quiz-likeÂ format that forces the user to think through decisions, and provides information through question feedback.

Exploratory Learning

With no specified starting point, this interactive style gives the users autonomy, letting themÂ choose what to view and when. When theyâve seen all of the necessary sections, they can move on to the post-assessmentÂ quiz.

Test Out

This interactive style provides users an opportunity to test out of sections; if they do not score 100% onÂ the test-out questions, they must view the lesson. Followed by a short post-assessment for tracking and completion.

Traditional Learning

The traditional computer-based training style; linear and passive, with minimal user interaction.Â Followed by a short post-assessment for tracking and completion.

Assessments

We offer pre-assessments and post-assessments, both of which will allow you to measure and track your users’ progress. Pre-assessments allow you to establish a baseline before beginning your training program. Post-assessments can help you analyze how far your users have come towards becoming human firewalls.

You canât improve what you donât measure, and you wonât know if youâve improved if you donât take a baseline assessment.

Trivia Games

Games offer engaging microlearning opportunities. Interactivity is the key to engagement. Games donât have to be complicated or time-consuming in order to encourage active learning!

Why wouldnât you want to include fun, visually appealing games as part of your security awareness campaign? Your users will love the familiarity of our trivia games. Each trivia game includes 10 or 15 multiple choice questions on a specific subject, and has a fun, light-hearted visual theme.

Pick the games you like the best. We provide all the questions, but you can customize any game or quiz with your own questions for an additional cost.

Best of all? Games are LMS-friendly and SCORM compliant. Metrics allow you to measure progress easily. We build scores of interactive graded (SCORM / AICC / xAPI) or ungraded (Intranet / Archer / Sharepoint / Local viewing) assessments for existing courseware and custom training materials.

Game Options

Your users will love the familiarity of our interactive games. Use them as part of a module, to reinforce training concepts, or as post-assessments with grade-tracking in your LMS.

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Who is the Security Awareness Company?

The Security Awareness Company (SAC) has provided organizations with dynamic security awareness training materials on an international scale since 1991 when we were founded by visionary information security pioneer, Winn Schwartau.

We create successful cyber security awareness training programs (including compliance standards such as HIPAA and PCI-DSS) for companies of all sizes. Our products are different from other security companies, because our engaging content is specifically designed to transform your end-users into human firewalls.

We are passionate about the importance of cyber security awareness and educating people to become good digital citizens. Your organization simply cannot afford to limit company security training to boring annual PowerPoint presentations or dry modules that no one absorbs. Let us help you implement a program that will actually change your users’ behavior for the long-term!

Security Awareness is Our Passion

Knowing that information security can quickly overwhelm the average user, we produce content â written by cyber security professionals â that is easy to retain and instantly applicable to daily life. We understand that you can’t change someone’s behavior without changing their mindset; our visionary approach is to treat security awareness as a marketing campaign for maximum success:

Create training moments at frequent intervals.
Repeatedly restate the same key awareness messages in new ways.
Make the messages relevant to the users’ everyday life and use real examples.
Draw on modern trends to grab attention and to make learning fun.

In addition to helping our clients, we also utilize our creativity and technical know-how in order to fully serve the global community of users as a whole. Throughout the year, we share cyber awareness advice shoulder-to-shoulder with information security giants and speak at events to promote the importance of training end-users effectively.

We also regularly update a full archive of FREE security awareness training materials (many items starring our beloved mascot, Security Cat™!) and our security awareness blog.

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We strive to produce quality security awareness blog articles multiple times a week that are relevant for you, your organization, and your family.

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Accolades from Clients

“It has been an absolute pleasure working with The Security Awareness Company. Your professionalism and work are fantastic. The newsletter continues to get RAVE reviews here. I canât tell you how many emails and or phone calls I get every time I launch one. ALL positive!! Even our CEO has commented on it on numerous occasions. Trust me if I am ever again in the need for a Cyber Security Newsletter Program I know exactly where to go to.”

– Medical Supply Distributor

“These videos rock, I am really impressed. Thanks for your hard work and support.”

– Global Electronics Distributor

“From us: ‘best so far!!!’ I typically get some hallway comments regarding [your content], but for this issue many of my staff are taking the time to email me saying ‘great newsletter.’ You definitely struck a positive chord on this one, great job!”

– Finance Sector, NYC

“LOVE THIS ISSUE! I’ve even overhead ‘bathroom stall chatter’ encouraging others to read this one!”

– National Finance Institution

“You guys are the best in the business!”

– Compliance Training Reseller

“As always, your content is informative, entertaining, and our people are actually viewing it regularly!”

– Government Energy Research Agency

“Security awareness is a dry as dust topic to the typical end user. We have struggled in the past getting people to read and assimilate security tips, policies, concepts, etc. The SAC newsletter is thoughtfully designed, fresh each month, timely, and easily understandable by our folks with varying degrees of technical understanding. We’ve managed to turn a ‘roll your eyes back in your head’ topic into a monthly event our employees wait for AND share with their family. Thank you SAC.”

– Nationally-Known Credit Union

“Very entertaining. This must be very difficult, alerting to possible issues/problems without numbing the user into a frame of mind that says, ‘Too hard, I’m going to do nothing.’ Really, ya’ll have been superb. Thanks.”

– US Military Agency

“Our organization has partnered with The Security Awareness Company for nearly 2 years. The momentum of education and awareness has expanded beyond Information Security to Privacy, Physical Security and Operations. Their creativity and willingness to work with us for custom media and training has improved participation greatly. The momentum continues and so does our partnership. We are very grateful for The Security Awareness Company.”

– Global Well-Being Company

What’s it like to work with us?

We are a small, customer service-oriented boutique and cater to both small businesses and global enterprises. We strive to give all of our clients one-on-one attention in order to deliver the best awareness program possible for their organizations.

While we can never promise 24-hour turnaround, our production team delivers high-quality work efficiently and usually ahead of schedule. Some tasks can be delivered in as little as 3 business days, but depending upon complexity can extend to several weeks. Let us know how we can assist you in all things Security Awareness! ð

Creating branding templates
Branding requested materials
Preparing off-the-shelf materials
Developing custom launch videos
Designing branding LMS portal
Editing materials with custom requests
Developing custom training materials

Presidents Day
4-day weekends for Labor Day, Independence Day, & Memorial Day
Wed – Fri of the week of Thanksgiving
Last 2 weeks of December

We respond to email during normal business hours with the exception of the U.S. holidays & dates listed, during which we will be closed. Please be patient with us as we want to serve all of our clients equally and exceed everyoneâs expectations, while giving our hard-working production team plenty of time to rest and refresh their creativity!

We donât advocate launching security awareness programs in January, October, or December. The beginning of the year, National Cyber Security Awareness Month, and the holiday season provide too many distractions for users to engage with something else new. Pick a surprising month, something unexpected and that you can “own” in order to get the best results.

Meet the Key Players of Our Awesome Team

Winn SchwartauFounder & Chief Visionary Officer

👉 Winn’s Blog Posts

Bob TodrankChief Executive Officer

Ashley SchwartauChief Operating Officer

👉 Ashley’s Blog Posts

Kayley MeltonChief Digital Officer

👉 Kayley’s Blog Posts

Jane McGrawDirector of Business Development

Stacey-Lee MessamClient Program Manager

Alex SmithMarketing Coordinator

Tyler BaldingeLearning Development Manager

👉 Tyler’s Blog Posts

Erin OsborneSenior Graphic Designer

👉 Erin’s Blog Posts

Jeremy SkaggsSenior Video Developer

Justin BonnemaSenior Writer

👉 Justin’s Blog Posts

Breck CooperLead Web Developer

Sherra SchwartauSenior Content QA Specialist

CheetoChief Security Cat

👉 Security Cat Blog Posts

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Security Awareness Training Programs

Our passion for security, privacy, and online safety is echoed in everything we produce. Every organization has different needs, a different culture, and different priorities. We cater to those differences! Let us be the one stop shop for your security awareness program.

We have everything you need to educate and continuously market to your end-users, with a wide variety of training, reinforcements, and messaging materials.

Download: The Introductory Guide to Security Awareness Programs

Our training material speaks for itself

Time and again we hear the same thing: “There’s nothing like you guys out there!” We like to keep it personal & approachable.

Greater than 95% client retention rate

Our content doesn’t justÂ lookÂ good; it outperforms! We turn dry cybersecurity topics into something entertaining & consistently fresh.

Boutique feel with excellent service

We give clients lots of 1-on-1 attention to make sure their programs are successful. Security awareness is our passion!

Let us help you put together the perfect corporate security awareness & compliance training program uniquely tailored to your specific needs and company culture.

We know firsthand just how overwhelming running a security awareness program can be.Â We have more types of content than anyone out there, and if youâre not sure how to leverage it all for your program, we can teach you!

When you sign on with us, youâre signing up for one-on-one service and one-of-a-kind cyber security awareness content.

We view program development as a triad of stages:Â planning,Â launching, andÂ managing.Â We will assist you in developing a comprehensive program in each of these phases: to select materials that will work best for your users, to jumpstart the program with a solid launch, and to keep track of progress.

RESOURCE LIBRARY

Need guidance on how to create successful awareness programs?

Resource Library

Browse our helpful articles and downloadables on planning, launching, and managing programs.

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Assess Your Specific Awareness Program Needs

Whether you need to start your security awareness program from the ground up or just need some fresh materials to supplement what you already have in place, our friendly and experienced sales team will help you find the perfect package to fit your organization. We can work with any budget, and any organization of any size. Donât fret if you donât know where to start; we can help.

We provide more choices than anyone else in this industry, from branding all of your materials and delivering them in multiple languages, to in-depth consulting on which content to use and customizing materials to further exceed your expectations.

View products in our inventory and read more about our program philosophy here.

What Happens After You Sign On with Us?

After signing on with us, our dedicated client program manager will be your point of contact for all of your awareness needs as you browse our extensive content library and determine which content best fits your program.

Whenever you’re ready to start selecting content, we will set you up with our secure file delivery system, make sure you receive regular tips for running your program, and create all necessary branding templates to have on file.

Have your own LMS? Not a problem! We can work with any SCORM, xAPI, or AICC learning management system.

Requesting Products for Your Program

At any point during the term of your license, you submit content requests to our client program manager, who works with our talented production team to prepare and deliver branded materials when you need them. You can choose all of your content in the beginning, though we recommend sprinkling your selections throughout the year so you can take advantage of our quarterly content releases.

Not sure which content will work best within your organization? We can help you figure out what you need and which types of content will resonate best with your users.

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Security Awareness Program FlexPoints & Pricing

Let us help you design the perfect security awareness program uniquely tailored to your specific needs and organizational culture.

We donât believe in cybersecurity awareness training that happens only once a year. Our content is designed to keep good securityÂ awareness practices at the forefront of your staff membersâ minds by repeatedly presenting them with key messages in variousÂ eye-catching ways.

Security Awareness Program Packages & Pricing

Things change, we know that. Needs evolve and you may discover halfway through your program that one type of awareness content works better than another. Our brand new FlexPoints system will let you build a comprehensive program throughout the year without having to decide up-front what you need.

You donât always know what your program will need when you first sign on. You may have an idea, but canât nail down specifics.Â For example, you may know that you want to do a monthly newsletter subscription and at least one training module, and thatÂ youâll probably use some posters and videos… but you donât always know specifics upfront. Or you may think you know, butÂ six months from now, you decide youâd rather have modules instead of videos.

FlexPoints entirely eliminates the need forÂ swapping or deciding on content up-front. We will help you decide what type of package will work best for your organization!

Think about the types of content you may want to use, and the amount of content you may want to release throughout the year,Â to gauge a number of FlexPoints that will work for your organization. For example, if you have a mature program in place, you may findÂ yourself drawn to larger packages, but if you are just starting out and need a simple program before ramping up your efforts, youÂ may consider one of the small or mid-size packages.

SAC makes training for security awareness program managers a breeze!

Security Awareness Program Pricing

FlexPoints give each type of content â courses, videos, artwork, etc. â a value in points. When you sign on with us, you will purchase a FlexPoint package that will contain a total number of points. You will then use these points to select content you would like to use in your program, and the content’s point value will be deducted from your total points.

All pricing depends on the FlexPoint package you select and the number of users that will be enrolled in training. We donât follow a strict per-seat licensing model; rather we give you a range of seats (500-750 or 1000-1500, for example) so that you donât have to worry about adding additional seats throughout the course of your license – youâre covered!

Branding is an additional one-time fee. Customization of any kind beyond the standard branding requires the purchase of custom production hours. To learn more and discuss figures, please contact us!

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Extra Options for Your Security Awareness Program

Branding

Languages

LMS Hosting

Policy & Customization

Branding

It’s easy to brand any of our materials just for you.

What goes into branding a security awareness program?

Think of your awareness program as an advertising campaign. Content should be delivered regularly and with a consistent look-and-feel, which emphasizes to users that the information you’re presenting to them is important and relevant to your organization’s internal culture.
Maybe you want to create a mascot or logo for the security department. Every time an employee sees an email blast or poster with that logo, they recognize it as part of the Security Awareness Initiative.
Our production team will work with you to develop a consistent, branded look-and-feel for all your training materials. Just provide us with a high-res logo, your company colors, and incident response information, and we’ll do the rest!
For an extra charge, you can also add custom pages to the newsletter or delete / modify content in any of our courses, videos, and posters. This way, everything coordinates with your internal policy!Â

Add Your Logo

We place your company logo or an internal department logo / mascot on all the materials from the newsletter header to the footers of posters.

Company Colors

To make everything consistent with your organization’s brand, we use your specific colors to create everything from the course player templates to the newsletter template.

Incident Response Info

Your employees need to know whom to call in case of emergency, so plaster your contact info on everything: newsletters, posters, videos, and courses!

Easy to Brand

Tell us what you want to call your newsletter, courses, post-assessments, and Security Express videos.

Languages

Many of our materials are already available in dozens of languages.

Localization Options

Newsletter

Please keep in mind translation costs are based on the language and number of languages so therefore we need that information in order to provide quotes for the costs involved.

Modules

Videos

For additional cost and a few extra days for production time, you can receive a localized version of any video.Â There are two options for this:

Subtitles: The easiest and most budget-friendly option is to add subtitles, in any language, to the videos. Many of our videos are already available with subtitles in many different languages. If you donât see a language specified, we can translate and subtitle the video for a fee.
Narration: We get the video translated and narrated by a native speaker, lay the new audio in, and re-export the videos. This get costly because we must charge for the translation, and the audio engineerâs, vocal artistâs and video editorâs time. We also can not guarantee that the voice will sync up exactly with the visuals since our production team can only collectively speak three languages. 😃

Posters

LMS Hosting

ADA & JAWS compatible.
Hosted in Amazonâs AWS-EC2, reliability and security is assured (SSL-TLS).
Tin Can API, SCORM, AICC compliant.
Branded with your company details, full reporting and metrics.
Use our quizzing and assessments or we can use your ideas and make them interactive. We are here for you.
For larger installations (10,000 â 100,000+ users), we can provide labels, such as Location, Department, etc. for more in-depth reporting.
A comprehensive administration console is available to your organization, or we can manage it for you.

🎓 Don’t forget to ask for a demo of our LMS!

Policy & Customization

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Extra Options for Your Security Awareness Program

Branding

Languages

LMS Hosting

Policy & Customization

Branding

It’s easy to brand any of our materials just for you.

What goes into branding a security awareness program?

Think of your awareness program as an advertising campaign. Content should be delivered regularly and with a consistent look-and-feel, which emphasizes to users that the information you’re presenting to them is important and relevant to your organization’s internal culture.
Maybe you want to create a mascot or logo for the security department. Every time an employee sees an email blast or poster with that logo, they recognize it as part of the Security Awareness Initiative.
Our production team will work with you to develop a consistent, branded look-and-feel for all your training materials. Just provide us with a high-res logo, your company colors, and incident response information, and we’ll do the rest!
For an extra charge, you can also add custom pages to the newsletter or delete / modify content in any of our courses, videos, and posters. This way, everything coordinates with your internal policy!Â

Add Your Logo

We place your company logo or an internal department logo / mascot on all the materials from the newsletter header to the footers of posters.

Company Colors

To make everything consistent with your organization’s brand, we use your specific colors to create everything from the course player templates to the newsletter template.

Incident Response Info

Your employees need to know whom to call in case of emergency, so plaster your contact info on everything: newsletters, posters, videos, and courses!

Easy to Brand

Tell us what you want to call your newsletter, courses, post-assessments, and Security Express videos.

Languages

Many of our materials are already available in dozens of languages.

Localization Options

Newsletter

Please keep in mind translation costs are based on the language and number of languages so therefore we need that information in order to provide quotes for the costs involved.

Modules

Videos

For additional cost and a few extra days for production time, you can receive a localized version of any video.Â There are two options for this:

Subtitles: The easiest and most budget-friendly option is to add subtitles, in any language, to the videos. Many of our videos are already available with subtitles in many different languages. If you donât see a language specified, we can translate and subtitle the video for a fee.
Narration: We get the video translated and narrated by a native speaker, lay the new audio in, and re-export the videos. This get costly because we must charge for the translation, and the audio engineerâs, vocal artistâs and video editorâs time. We also can not guarantee that the voice will sync up exactly with the visuals since our production team can only collectively speak three languages. 😃

Posters

LMS Hosting

ADA & JAWS compatible.
Hosted in Amazonâs AWS-EC2, reliability and security is assured (SSL-TLS).
Tin Can API, SCORM, AICC compliant.
Branded with your company details, full reporting and metrics.
Use our quizzing and assessments or we can use your ideas and make them interactive. We are here for you.
For larger installations (10,000 â 100,000+ users), we can provide labels, such as Location, Department, etc. for more in-depth reporting.
A comprehensive administration console is available to your organization, or we can manage it for you.

🎓 Don’t forget to ask for a demo of our LMS!

Policy & Customization

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It’s easy to brand any of our materials just for you.

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Many of our materials are already available in dozens of languages.

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